5 struggling holes in the lineup, top two in rotation are basket cases, best strike thrower who at least gives you a major league quality effort every time out is on the DL, the best pitcher on the staff is a hyperactive 38-yr old and Jeremy Accardo is on his way to assume the Wheeler role.

Did I miss anything other than Tony Sipp not being trustworthy either?

Excellent. Roll Tribe!!!

It's going to get artificially sweet if they beat this AA+ team the Twins field or it's going to get really ugly if that AA+ team hands the Tribe their lunch.

Choo batting leadoff is good. Maybe he'll get hit with a pitch or two or something. Casey Kotchman is extremely irritating to me so far this year. For one brief spell in the White Sox series he reached the Mendoza line, he's back looking for it.

5 struggling holes in the lineup, top two in rotation are basket cases, best strike thrower who at least gives you a major league quality effort every time out is on the DL, the best pitcher on the staff is a hyperactive 38-yr old and Jeremy Accardo is on his way to assume the Wheeler role.

Did I miss anything other than Tony Sipp not being trustworthy either?

Excellent. Roll Tribe!!!

It's going to get artificially sweet if they beat this AA+ team the Twins field or it's going to get really ugly if that AA+ team hands the Tribe their lunch.

The Twins message boards are probably saying, if we can't beat this AAA+ team at home, this season is lost for sure

Sadly, though, the avatar may very well get more comments in this thread than tonight's game. Here's a pitiful "over/under" to consider: There are three guys batting OVER .250, five that are under, and Haf is sitting right on it. Heck, two guys are batting below .200 and Demon is barely above it (.207). Isn't hitting something of a fundamental when you play this game? Especially if all of our "good" pitchers are pitching like crap?

I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.~~~Annie Savoy-"Bull Durham"

Sadly, though, the avatar may very well get more comments in this thread than tonight's game. Here's a pitiful "over/under" to consider: There are three guys batting OVER .250, five that are under, and Haf is sitting right on it. Heck, two guys are batting below .200 and Demon is barely above it (.207). Isn't hitting something of a fundamental when you play this game? Especially if all of our "good" pitchers are pitching like crap?

What I find funny is people will see Shelly Duncan in LF tonight and think it's a defensive upgrade.

What I find horribly depressing is they'll be right.

And Duncan is one step up from setting a 55gal drum in left field and counting anything that goes in it or touches it an out.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Who knew Johnny Damnon was the offspring of Mephisto?

The dude that played touch football with Mitt Romney and collected Transformers and left the boards in a huff?

No way. You actually gotta get inside the female reproductive chamber to have offspring.

Do you now?

You have no idea what Mac learned from those comic books from scientists and engineers like Bruce Banner and Tony Stark . And you have no idea that he may have artificially produced an entire population of guitar playing, planned parenthood volunteering, Star Wars action figure collecting MacPhistos.

Because he didn't want you knowing and even if you did he's quite certain you'd never figure it out.